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The ABC have been approved for the Essex Lottery and a webpage is being created for us. We are grant chasing currently and we have exciting plans we want to pursue.  This is the Essex Lottery information. Support your Essex third secor organisat...

The Scottish are becoming a nation of renters says the 2016 Scottish Household Survey, which also showed the overall number of homes in Scotland increased from 2.19 million in 1999 to 2.45 million last year - a rise of 11 per cent. But over the same...

The ABC has been hearing of plans for twenty European Universities an idea evidently supported by French President Emmanuel Macron.  Meanwhile more evidence of the circular economy and thinking of students and their hobbies - Pisner be...

Minimum income policies as a tool to tackle poverty Rapporteur: Laura Agea (EFDD, IT) The draft report calls for the introduction of the EU-wide minimum income schemes to fight poverty and social exclusion. Economic policies of the euro area Rapporte...

French on Friday formally signed controversial laws overhauling the country’s labor rules, Reuters reported. Macron promised when he was elected earlier this year to reform the labor legislation. The new rules aim to inject greater flexibi...

Wednesday 27th September from 9am-4pm the Ipswich Bus Shelter will be visiting Colchester Britannia Carpark to show off their newly converted double decker bus. This is a community funded project where volunteers have created a safe, w...

In January to March of 2017, 1,597 patients waited for over 12 hours to be admitted to A&E, analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has shown. This is an increase of 10,546% compared to the same period five years ago. A crisis is bein...

Eastbourne’s MP has called Universal Credit a ‘train wreck’ and has said Christmas will be ‘bitterly hard’ for the town’s families unless it is paused. Stephen Lloyd, the Work and Pensions spokesperson for the Libe...

A disability benefits assessor from Northampton who said a claimant was "too fat" to wipe her bottom has been given a five-year caution. Alan Barham was caught making the remarks about a disability benefit applicant on Channel 4's "Dispatches: T...

Sinn Féin Councillor Caoimhe McKnight has branded a controversial ‘two child’ benefits policy with an associated rape clause ‘disgusting’ and called for it to be immediately scrapped. Colr. McKnight was speaking followi...